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Doolan, now 45 and of Mayfields North in New Ferry, was jailed after a judge accepted she had also been sexually exploited - but said she had ultimately allowed her victim to become a “sexual object” for others to prey on.

She was jailed for two years after being found guilty of two counts of gross indecency with a child and one of indecent assault of a child.

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Martyn Walsh, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court: “The officer opened the case and saw a 12 inch blade which he believed had been sharpened.

“PC Hale seized the sword and went to arrest Hamer but as he took his handcuffs from his belt and approached him Mr Hamer seemed to panic and tried to push past him. Hamer then adopted a martial arts stance facing him.”

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But, after sentencing was adjourned, he boarded a one-way flight to the US and disappeared off the radar of police.

Young, formerly of Westminster Road, in Kirkdale, was jailed for three years and eight months at Liverpool Crown Court for the cultivation of cannabis, possession of the drug with intent to supply and failing to attend court.

MARC HENRY-WALLIS

Marc Henry-Wallis jailed for a vicious two-year campaign of bullying and violence that left his battered and bruised wife ‘a prisoner in her own life’ (Image: MEN Syndication)

Radio DJ Henry-Wallis was jailed for a campaign of abuse against his wife that was so vicious it left her suffering post-traumatic stress disorder.

He beat his partner almost weekly - leaving her with two broken ribs in one devastating attack.

The consequences of his bullying are so severe his victim is now afraid to leave home and carries a panic alarm at all times, Manchester Evening News reported.

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The 29-year-old, of Flaybrick Close, Bidston, was locked up for 38 weeks at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court after admitting assaulting the women.

He also admitted breaching a non-molestation order and bail conditions by bombarding his ex-girlfriend, Vicki Clayton, with foul racist abuse and sinister threats in separate incidents.

He was handed a five year restraining order banning him from contacting Ms Clayton.

MEHMET TEKEGAC

Mehmet Tekegac, 43, has been jailed after pocketing £98,000 in VAT (Image: Handout)

Takeaway owner Tekegac claimed benefits while pocketing almost £100,000 in VAT he charged his customers.

The 43-year-old claimed he made £9,000 a year from Top Grill Kebab and Pizza House in Warrington.

But after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigators examined his bank records, his personal income and records of sales they found that he was hiding his earnings to avoid paying £31,244 due in corporation tax.

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The court also heard how he had pocketed more than £98,000 in VAT he had charged his customers and shockingly had also claimed £49,528 in Child Tax Credits for his ‘low income’ family of six.

Tekegac, of Viscount Road, Padgate, pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud which totalled £179,000.

He was jailed for two years and six months and confiscation proceedings have also been launched to recover the money he owes.

YOHANN RAMCHELAWON

Undated handout photo issued by West Midlands Police of Yohann Ramchelawon,30, who has been jailed for 15 years at Stafford Crown Court, after he posed as a young Justin Bieber lookalike online to lure schoolgirls into sending him indecent webcam images.

Liverpool schoolgirls were duped into sending indecent webcam images to a 30-year-old man who posed as a Justin Bieber lookalike online.

Yohann Ramchelawon was jailed for 15 years for trapping children by using a photo of a teenage boy he took from the internet to create bogus social media profiles before grooming youngsters.

Ramchelawon, who was arrested in Huddersfield on March 6, utilised Instagram, WhatsApp, Skype and Facebook to target girls aged between 12 and 17.

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Some of his victims were also coerced into performing sex acts in front of webcams after Ramchelawon threatened to share the images they had provided with friends and family.

Police traced an IP address used to message a 12-year-old Manchester girl to a house in Walsall.

There they found hundreds of indecent images on his digital devices as officers uncovered victims from Liverpool, Coventry and Walsall in the West Midlands, plus Lanark in Scotland, St Ives, Shoreham-by-sea and East Ham in London.

Ramchelawon - who gave his home address as Walls Street, Halifax, when arrested - was convicted of two counts of inciting a 12-year-old girl to engage in sex acts online, eight charges of possessing indecent images of children and two of distributing the images.

STEVEN MARTIN

Steven Martin, 22, of Ince Avenue in Walton, was jailed for two years at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting burglary. (Image: Merseyside Police)

The brother of two men who murdered an innocent teenage boy in cold blood was locked up for burgling an elderly couple.

Steven Martin will join his younger brother, John, and his older brother, Paul, in prison - where they are serving life sentences for the shotgun execution of 16-year-old Lewis Dunne.

Martin, of Ince Avenue in Walton, was jailed for two years at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting burgling the home of Maureen Brown and her husband Frank Thornthwaite.

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Adepetun, of no fixed address but from the Toxteth area, denied wounding with intent despite being filmed on CCTV thrusting a metallic object towards Mr Dunne, but was found guilty after a trial at Liverpool Crown Court last month.

Drunken Adepetun, who was on licence after serving a sentence for possession of a handgun and bullets at the time of the stabbing, claimed the object was a lighter.

This week the judge, Recorder Louise Brandon, ruled Adepetun was a dangerous offender in legal terms and jailed him for 12 years. In doing so she passed an ‘extended sentence’ - meaning he must serve at least eight years behind bars before being referred to a Parole Board.

MICHAEL BYRNE

Michael Joseph Byrne

Violent Byrne was locked up after a court heard he wanted to ‘drink his partner’s blood and carve his name inside her mouth’.

The 34-year-old was ordered to stay away from his partner after a series of incidents, including her being seen with two black eyes and bite marks to her ears and tongue.

Her family raised concerns, including that Byrne had told her he wanted to take blood from her arm with a needle and drink it “so she could be inside him forever”.

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Last month Liverpool Magistrates’ Court imposed a Domestic Violence Protection Order (DVPO) after an application by Merseyside Police, banning Byrne from any contact with the victim for a month,

But Byrne admitted breaching the DVPO and was jailed for six weeks after police turned up at his home in Grosvenor Road, Walton, to find him with bloodied knuckles and the victim bleeding, hiding in a back alley.

Byrne has not been charged with any criminal offence against the victim, who did not cooperate with police enquiries, but the court was satisfied “on the balance of probabilities” that he had been violent towards her when it imposed the DVPO.

ADAM CARDEN and EDWARD OPOMU

Edward Opomu and Adam Carden

Carden and Opomu were jailed after admitting their roles in a shocking Orrell Park robbery.

The pair burst into a home where Opomu grabbed a man by the throat while Carden wielded a machete.

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He has now became the latest member of the gang to be locked up after police busted his network of misery.

Dodd, of Barlows Lane in Fazakerley, was jailed for four years and ten months after pleading guilty to the charge of Conspiracy to Supply Class A drugs. A separate sentence for breaching his travel ban will run alongside that term.

JOHN TAYLOR

John Taylor - aka John Tate - 61, of Greenbank Road in Wirral, who was jailed for 32 months after admitting breaching a non-molestation order, threatening with a blade and wounding.

“Jealous and cruel” Taylor was jailed for slashing a mum with a kitchen knife after she dropped their daughter off at school – telling her “drive or I’ll kill you”.

John Taylor, aka John Tate, attacked his ex-girlfriend Dawn Cowderoy at Devonshire Park Primary School in Prenton on May 15 this year.

The 61-year-old – who was subject to a non-molestation order at the time – confronted her in the Temple Road school’s car park after wrongly believing he would be unable to see their seven-year-old daughter for a year.

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Concerned officers went in to Edwards-Sutton, believed to be under the influence of drugs, to remove his clothes to prevent him harming himself, said Iain Criddle, prosecuting.

He was restrained after a struggle and as the officers were leaving Sergeant Graham Williams slipped on the wet floor and the defendant then spat in his face.

Sentencing him to a total of 11 months imprisonment the judge, Recorder David Knifton, said, “It was a despicable act because of the considerable concern to that police officer, not because of the infliction of serious injury, but the risks that a known drug user could cause.”

The defendant, of Lansdowne Road, Oxton, had pleaded guilty to assaulting Sgt Williams.

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Liverpool Crown Court heard the victim replied “you’re joking?” but drunken Robinson slashed him across the nose and cheek.

The victim was in “a state of shock and panic” as Robinson turned his attention to shop assistant Arrthiga Neethenathan.

The yob pointed the knife at the 23-year-old, who described herself as “terrified and shivering”, and again demanded £20.

The knife wielded by Christian Robinson, 26, of Lower Breck Road, Anfield, jailed for six years and eight months with an extended three years on licence after admitting assault with intent to commit robbery, robbery and possession of an offensive weapon

The manager told her to give Robinson “everything they had”, so she handed over £20, then £45, plus six packs of cigarettes.

Robinson, who was living at nearby Lower Breck Hostel at the time of the attack, admitted assault with intent to commit robbery, robbery and possession of an offensive weapon.

He was jailed for six years and eight months, with an extended three years on licence.

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He later told police he had been threatened in a club and was “in fear for his life”.

Gandy, of Heydean Road, Allerton, was handed a six month jail term after admitting possession of an offensive weapon at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court.

KYLE MORGAN

Kyle Morgan (Image: Merseyside Police)

Homeless Kyle Morgan was jailed for sneaking into a hotel swimming pool to wash himself.

The 30-year-old, of no fixed abode, pretended to be a paying guest at the Novotel hotel in Hanover Street and followed other residents into the bathing pool area, which could only be accessed by entering a keycode.

Liverpool Magistrates’ Court heard that Morgan stripped and left his clothes strewn around the changing room, before entering the pool.

But when hotel staff became suspicious and challenged him, Morgan falsely claimed he was a hotel guest and became increasingly aggressive.

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Morgan was eventually arrested and told officers he had been living on the streets for three weeks and felt dirty and wanted to get a wash.

Vicky Balenski, defending, said Morgan “had issues” with his health and accommodation, and also suffered PTSD, although his claim that he had been in the army was false.

She said he had been homeless since being released from an earlier custodial sentence, adding: “He was dirty and needed a wash and did not have access to any other facilities.”

District Judge Wendy Lloyd told Morgan, who appeared in custody after failing to attend a previous hearing: “It’s sad that there’s nowhere you could get washed. Years ago you could do that, indeed we used to be world leaders in that respect.

“However your nastiness to hotel staff was uncalled for and you have not engaged with the probation service.”

Morgan, who pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining services by dishonest means and for breaches of post-sentence supervision, was jailed for a total of 28 days, of which he must serve half.

ROBERT PETERS

Peters, a vicar who repeatedly sexually abused four children from the same family in Wirral, was jailed this week.

The 62-year-old indecently assaulted two girls and two boys, who were younger than him, when he was aged between 14 and 21 - and then later compounded their misery by officiating at their father’s funeral.

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One of his victims, now a grown man, said: “When he turned up to take the service at my dad’s funeral I felt sick.”

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the offences, which began in the 1960s, only came to light after one of Peters’ victims had an emotional breakdown while the Jimmy Saville sex abuse scandal came to prominence in the media.

Peters, of Chester, was jailed for two years after pleading guilty to 12 indecent assaults.